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1 week ago | 
spia.princeton.edu | Ambreen Ali
Ask a sampling of Princeton School of Public and International Affairs students or alumni what they value most about their education and, inevitably, they will say “the community.” The strength of the Princeton SPIA network was on full display on April 5 and 6 at the annual Students and Alumni of Color (SAOC) Spring Symposium.
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1 week ago | 
spia.princeton.edu | Ambreen Ali
May 05 2025 By Ambreen Ali Topics Climate Change, Environment, Energy Health Source Princeton School of Public and International Affairs Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.
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2 weeks ago | 
spia.princeton.edu | Ambreen Ali
May 01 2025 By Ambreen Ali Source Princeton School of Public and International Affairs Princeton SPIA Faculty Professional Updates SPIA in New Jersey Faculty Fellow Joe Krakora ’76 will receive the Charles J. Hollenbeck Award from the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law at a ceremony on June 12. The award recognizes members of New Jersey’s legal community who have demonstrated the highest standards of professionalism in practice.
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2 weeks ago | 
spia.princeton.edu | Ambreen Ali
At 87, Frank von Hippel — the first natural scientist to be hired by the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs more than 40 years ago — has written down his life story.
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1 month ago | 
spia.princeton.edu | Ambreen Ali
Apr 17 2025 By Ambreen Ali Source Princeton School of Public and International Affairs At dawn on a windy March day, 17 bleary-eyed undergraduates gathered at the campus Wawa to board a bus to Newark. Fueled by cups of coffee and ample pre-reading, the students in Amelia Frank-Vitale’s course “Asylum: Policy, Politics, and Practice” were heading to federal immigration court for an up-close understanding of how the U.S. government handles deportation proceedings.
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1 month ago | 
spia.princeton.edu | Ambreen Ali
Apr 14 2025 By Ambreen Ali Source Princeton School of Public and International Affairs Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.
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1 month ago | 
spia.princeton.edu | Ambreen Ali
Pauline Carry, an assistant professor of economics and international affairs, is a labor economist and a macroeconomist. Her research focuses on how employment contracts are formed and terminated, and the effects of labor-market institutions aimed at regulating those contracts. Carry has studied the impact of introducing a legal minimum working time of 24 hours per week in France, where she grew up.
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1 month ago | 
spia.princeton.edu | Ambreen Ali
Every semester, Princeton students interested in public-policy careers go to Washington, D.C., to explore career opportunities. When planning for the spring trip began last year, a visit to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was high on the list. Everything changed in January, when the agency’s operations halted.
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2 months ago | 
spia.princeton.edu | Ambreen Ali
In early January, 20 Princeton undergraduates were watching events unfold from across the world. In a weeklong visit to Taiwan and Singapore, they had the opportunity to ask high-level officials – including current and former heads of state – international journalists, and more than 100 Princeton alumni their thoughts on how changing politics in the United States could reshape the Asian Pacific.
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2 months ago | 
spia.princeton.edu | Ambreen Ali
If you run into Simon Jäger on the towpath with his Vizsla, you may not know that he is a globally recognized economist whose work on labor markets and inequality is helping reshape our understanding of modern work. He may strike you as someone deeply interested in communicating with his canine, perhaps a dog whisperer. But that’s another life. In this one, Jäger studies competition in the labor market and the institutional and psychological factors that impact it.
